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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Today is the second Wednesday
of the month, which makes it Indie time. To me, Indie means all things unique
and different. Want to publish only ebooks? Fine. Want your novels to be under
30,000 words? No problem. Want your chapters to all be a single page (I
silently raise my hand)? Go for it. But that’s just formatting, nuts and bolts
type of things. The spirit of Indie goes way beyond that. Who says a book has
to be a book at all? Why can’t it be a Youtube video? People have that app on
their devices same as they have Nook or Kindle. Truly, in this age there are no
rules. In the spirit of that, I’m announcing that a short story of mine will be
released on Youtube in January, storytelling style. I’ll be posting more
details as the time gets closer.

Indie means the
freedom to be creative. And when you’re basking in that, great things can
happen.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Hello, everyone!
Today is the first Wednesday of the month, which makes it IWSG time. Thanks to
Alex J. Cavanaugh and co-hosts to putting this on each month. If you feel like
joining in, you can find out morehere.

So what am I insecure
about right now? It’s hard to explain. I have just started two very part-time
jobs, and while eventually I’ll only be working fifteen hours a week between
the two, right now I’m in orientation and it feels like I’m working full-time.
So what does that have to do with writing, you may ask? Everything. The first
day of NaNo crept right by and I didn’t even notice. For me that’s a big deal;
I’ve done NaNo for years. The fact that November first was just another day on
the calendar this year is really freaking me out. It’s like I left my kid at
the babysitter overnight and didn’t even realize it. Have I stopped? I know it
sounds like I’m over-exaggerating here, but that is one of my biggest fears:
stopping writing and not caring that I have. Am I alone here?